Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
crab
Kun:
かに
On:
カイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2417 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蟹行文字 【カイコウモンジ】 cross-wise writing, alphabet usually written horizontally

Kun reading compounds

  • 蟹 【かに】 crab
  • カニ歩き 【カニあるき】 walking like a crab
  • 月夜の蟹 【つきよのかに】 crab with little meat, crab of a moonlit night, something with no meat to it, something unsubstantial
  • 渡り蟹 【わたりがに】 swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus), Japanese blue crab

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie4
Korean:
hae

Spanish

  • cangrejo

Portuguese

French

4195 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2853 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3611 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2520 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33668 Morohashi
5395 New Nelson (John Haig)
2682 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2722 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d13.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-13-6 SKIP code
2713.6 Four corner code
1-19-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
87f9 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさくさ--ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 草案 【ソウアン】 draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code